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Logo\" />\n      </Helmet>\n      <link rel=\"stylesheet\" href=\"../styles/global.css\" />\n      <div className=\"article\">\n        <Link to=\"/shoyaright\">\n          <div className=\"shoyarightChomskyArticle\" />\n        </Link>\n        <div className=\"articleTitle\">\n          <p>ZuffGPT; or, How to Survive AI</p>\n        </div>\n        <div className=\"byLine\">\n          <p> By: Lil Shoyaright! (Pub. Apr. 29th, 2023) </p>\n        </div>\n        <div className=\"articleBody\">\n          <p>\n            This AI discourse is fast approaching its critical mass at this\n            point so I obviously gotta add my 2 trillion cents.\n          </p>\n          <p>\n            Before I do, I should establish my credibility. My first direct\n            exposure to AI was in late 2017 when I was still in Illuminati\n            School (also known as Fartmouth College). I took a course called{\" \"}\n            <i>Cognitive Computing with Watson</i> with a{\" \"}\n            <a\n              href=\"https://researcher.watson.ibm.com/researcher/view.php?person=us-ccpalmer\"\n              target=\"_blank\"\n              rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"\n            >\n              cool professor\n            </a>{\" \"}\n            who’s also a famous researcher at IBM (hence how he got all of us\n            the hookup to a suite of AI tools that were extremely exclusive and\n            prohibitively expensive at the time).{\" \"}\n          </p>\n          <p>\n            During that course I did the very serious work of training a machine\n            learning model to differentiate between a{\" \"}\n            <a\n              href=\"https://external-content.duckduckgo.com/iu/?u=https%3A%2F%2Fcdn.aws.toolstation.com%2Fimages%2F141020-UK%2F800%2F15650.jpg&f=1&nofb=1&ipt=9ae7315983bcef0ed80f2bb682279bbf7d9371bf5cc9196c1d4f05618edc3785&ipo=images\"\n              target=\"_blank\"\n              rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"\n            >\n              mop\n            </a>{\" \"}\n            and a{\" \"}\n            <a\n              href=\"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Komondor\"\n              target=\"_blank\"\n              rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"\n            >\n              Hungarian sheepdog\n            </a>{\" \"}\n            , and training another model to differentiate between a{\" \"}\n            <a\n              href=\"https://external-content.duckduckgo.com/iu/?u=https%3A%2F%2Fexternal-preview.redd.it%2F6vh7N3NdpsM-KY4cjbhD2fwhobZdybsTW591zoxlPas.jpg%3Fauto%3Dwebp%26s%3D65e7e527e08fc4bb25ad175d93dd3036b1636b3b&f=1&nofb=1&ipt=4a54e0ddd28404bee1c3627347be763eb2c6fa897c69d745976bb3eba40de510&ipo=images\"\n              target=\"_blank\"\n              rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"\n            >\n              Chihuahua and a blueberry muffin\n            </a>\n            . In other words I was taught well enough to understand the general\n            history and principles of AI, and how to use off-the-shelf AI\n            tooling to demonstrate amusing canine-related Internet memes.\n          </p>\n          <p>\n            Around that same time, I went to an exhibition at{\" \"}\n            <a\n              href=\"https://www.icaboston.org/\"\n              target=\"_blank\"\n              rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"\n            >\n              ICA/Boston\n            </a>{\" \"}\n            which is where I first encountered the{\" \"}\n            <a\n              href=\"https://bostonartreview.com/reviews/internet-view-trevor-paglen-ica/\"\n              target=\"_blank\"\n              rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"\n            >\n              genius work of Trevor Paglen\n            </a>{\" \"}\n            (my personal favorite is his{\" \"}\n            <a\n              href=\"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eigenface\"\n              target=\"_blank\"\n              rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"\n            >\n              eigenface\n            </a>{\" \"}\n            of{\" \"}\n            <a\n              href=\"https://shoya.co/shoyaright/vol2/poet-foreigner-prisoner\"\n              target=\"_blank\"\n              rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"\n            >\n              Fanon\n            </a>\n            ), and when I first became consciously aware of the possibility of\n            using AI to generate art.{\" \"}\n          </p>\n          <p>\n            I should underline that I came nowhere <i>near</i> making <i>any</i>{\" \"}\n            contribution to the kind of AI research that’s resulted in the\n            current boom in tools like ChatGPT, DALL-E, and Bard. Nor did I\n            actually try my hand at making any AI-assisted art, despite how cool\n            I thought the concept was. All I’m saying is that I’ve been\n            contemplating this stuff for a while and I’m not completely talking\n            out my ass.{\" \"}\n          </p>\n          <p>\n            A lot has already been said about what the implications of AI will\n            be on art and artists. It’s been painted by many as a doomsday\n            scenario in which algorithmic theft is the norm, and all the skills\n            and talents that human artists have spent their lives accruing are\n            utterly wasted. I’m here to provide a more optimistic take. I have\n            three benefits I’d like to highlight.{\" \"}\n          </p>\n          <p>\n            Art has been trending{\" \"}\n            <a\n              href=\"https://philamuseum.org/collection/object/92488\"\n              target=\"_blank\"\n              rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"\n            >\n              more conceptual than technical\n            </a>{\" \"}\n            for well over a century now. The idea <i>behind</i> a piece of art\n            has long been more crucial than the physical artifact itself.\n            Luckily, AI is only likely to encroach on the technical side of\n            art-making for at least the next decade or two. That leads me to the\n            first two benefits of AI on the art world: 1) serious artists have\n            ample time to consider what the future of this technology means for\n            the trajectory of their respective practices, and 2) in the\n            meantime, they can safely* consider incorporating AI tools into\n            their current workflow in order to tighten certain feedback loops\n            and iterate more rapidly (which, I think, leads to better art).{\" \"}\n          </p>\n          <p>\n            *By ‘safely’ I mean ‘without being rendered totally useless’ not\n            ‘without being stolen from’ cuz as we all know stealing has been an\n            inevitable strategy in art since forever.{\" \"}\n          </p>\n          <p>\n            The last benefit, though, captures the whole essence of my attitude\n            towards AI in art. If you accept the superiority of concept over\n            technique like I do (broadly construed I mean, the technique{\" \"}\n            <i>could</i> be the concept), then you should consider this current\n            rush of AI platforms to mean the potential for a whole new\n            renaissance! Not only a renaissance for established artists with\n            good ideas, but for non-artists who were previously barred from\n            realizing their good ideas due to differences in ability or lack of\n            time and/or means. Put simply, AI in art means that great taste will\n            prevail and our lives will be enriched by all kinds of freaky new\n            shit!{\" \"}\n          </p>\n          <p>\n            Of course it’s not all roses. There’s the real possibility of AI\n            empowering{\" \"}\n            <a\n              href=\"https://shoya.co/shoyaright/vol3/is-cool-a-virtue\"\n              target=\"_blank\"\n              rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"\n            >\n              <span className=\"editorsNote\">PSEUDO-COOL</span>{\" \"}\n            </a>{\" \"}\n            losers who previously couldn’t create anything worth a damn, thereby\n            fueling their smug attitudes by convincing them they were geniuses\n            all along. I don’t know how to hedge against that, but it’s a risk\n            I’m personally willing to accept (\n            <span className=\"editorsNote\">TRUE-COOL</span> will always triumph).{\" \"}\n          </p>\n          <p>\n            The parts of your brain that govern your particular tastes are\n            referred to as your{\" \"}\n            <a\n              href=\"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salience_network\"\n              target=\"_blank\"\n              rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"\n            >\n              salience network\n            </a>{\" \"}\n            . I recommend that you guard it and cultivate it, because it’s how\n            you’re going to survive AI.{\" \"}\n          </p>\n        </div>\n        <p className=\"plug\">\n          If you enjoyed this article, consider{\" \"}\n          <a href=\"https://www.patreon.com/join/shoyaright?\">\n            becoming a patron\n          </a>{\" \"}\n          or making a{\" \"}\n          <a href=\"https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr?cmd=_donations&business=zuff@shoya.co&lc=US&item_name=The%20Shoyaright%21&currency_code=USD&no_note=0&bn=PP-DonationsBF:btn_donateCC_LG.gif:NonHostedGuest\">\n            one-time pledge\n          </a>\n          . Support corporate journalism!\n        </p>\n        <div className=\"articleCopyright\">\n          <p>&copy; Shoya, Inc. 2020 - &infin;</p>\n        </div>\n      </div>\n    </div>\n  )\n}\nexport default ZuffGPT\n"],"sourceRoot":""}